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Are transaction log backups incremental?

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SnapCenter Plug-in for Microsoft SQL, all versions

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Transaction log backup: contains data thathave been changed since the creation of any backup, including a previoustransaction log backup

Incremental backup: Backs up all files that have changed since the last backupoccurred.

From the definitions of each backup, it can b inferred that the transaction log backups are incremental.

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